Kia ora koutou

We are planning to upgrade Horizon from our current 7.5.5 version to version 7.5.6.  We have selected Monday 12th July as a date to do this – aiming to work from 7-8 am and have everything back up and running by the time the library opens so services won’t be impacted too much.

IT will push out the new Horizon client early on Monday morning so you will need to leave your computer on and logged off on your last day of work before the 12th July.

While we upgrade the database there will be an outage to the library catalogue so users will not be able to search, request or manage their library accounts.  The UCGo library tile library account management function will be down too.  Multisearch will still be functional for e-resources but the availability data and links to our print holdings won’t work.
RFID issuing and returns will also be unavailable during this period but should be back running before the library opens.
The outage shouldn’t be more than 30mins if all goes well.

Library staff who work 7-8am won’t be able to use Horizon or Horizon reports until we give the go ahead (more details will be sent out about this closer to the date).

The upgrade is just a minor one so there won’t be any drastic changes to the Horizon client you know (and love?) but there are a few small enhancements we may want to take advantage of, and bug fixes.  Our testers haven’t identified any significant issues.

Ngā mihi,

Romy (on behalf of Library Digital Services)